It was reported in detail how peaceful demonstrators against the anti-constitutional Corona measures were brutally bludgeoned by the Berlin police. The behaviour of the police during the current anti-Semitic, Muslim riots in Berlin now seems to be completely different.

At any rate, our tweet of the day suggests this: “How wonderful the times are when peaceful Islam is lovingly escorted by the police, while the accursed “infidel” is bludgeoned by the same creatures when he dares to uphold the Constitution.”

Once again, the impression is created here: Those who confront the German police, the Berlin judiciary and politics with great violence and an enormous threat potential (“We know where your family lives”) are handled with kid gloves. Weak outsiders and dissidents who have no lobby, on the other hand, are aggressively attacked – so that patterns emerge that we usually only know from dictatorships …

And again: We know, of course, that the documented behaviour of the police is not ultimately the responsibility of the police officer on duty, but is determined by politics via the head of operations.

And here – besides Berlin’s police chief Barbara Slowik – a certain name is once again at the centre of attention, that of Berlin’s Senator of the Interior Andreas Geisel ( formerly member) of the SED (Socialist Unity Party)/ now Die Linke (The Left Party). He actually let himself be tempted to say that the extreme violence on the streets of Berlin did not come from politically organised Palestinian groups, but from “experience-oriented” youths… And we were already afraid that Berlin had lost its reputation as the European party metropolis because of the Corona measures!

Polizei: Schonung für Allahs Söhne, Knüppel für die Ungläubigen?

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, politicians and hospitals have been warning of a patient overload in intensive care units in Germany. A research team led by Matthias Schrappe has now presented an explosive paper. Schrappe, a medical doctor and economist doubts the “honesty” of the number of Coronavirus cases.

The physician and health economist Prof. Dr. Schrappe has been critical of the German government’s Corona policy since April 2020. Together with eight other scientists, he published an explosive paper reported German daily Die Welt on Sunday: This suggests that there has been manipulation of official statistics, subsidy fraud and dubious use of funds.

Die Welt interviewed health economist Matthias Schrappe after the release of the study in which he criticized the inconsistencies in the handling of state subsidies by German hospitals.

As most clinics are now private, it is logical that their financial health comes before the health of their patients. But the research by Schrappe and his team contains other explosive revelations.

Patients who actually never had to be admitted to an intensive care unit were still transferred to the intensive care unit because there is simply more money at stake if this is the case. At the same time, intensive care beds were phased out because there is more money to be made when an intensive care unit is overloaded. In short: In Germany there has never been a shortage of intensive care units.

Unsurprisingly the statements by Matthias Schrappe and colleagues have caused outrage. The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) eV, the Marburger Bund Bundesverband and the German Hospital Society (DKG) “strongly reject the misleading allegations of playing with fear, the manipulation of official statistics and even the allegation of treating patients in intensive care purely for financial reasons”.

Schrappe has stood by his claim that the hospitals wrongly collected funding for intensive care beds.

Nine scientists have supported Schrappe with re-evaluated data on intensive care care during the Corona pandemic and also published their results in an ad hoc statement on Sunday.

In their studies, the scientists focused, for example, on acute inpatient care, the equipment with intensive care beds in an international comparison or the availability of intensive care capacity. The Hamburg forensic doctor Klaus Püschel and the Bremen general practitioner Matthias Gruhl were also involved.

“The improvement in the general data on the prognosis of the infection (average age, hospitalization, lethality), however, raises doubts about a relevant deterioration in intensive care,” the researchers explained in their summary.

“Looking back, question marks arise as to whether the game was being played honestly,” said Schrappe.

In addition, it was now clear: “The fear of scarce intensive care capacities or triage was unfounded”. However, it was precisely this fear that had been conveyed by politicians. And it is also clear that many decision-makers must have been aware of this during the entire course of the pandemic, Schrappe highlighted.

Even at the peak of all three “waves”, more than 25 percent of the intensive care beds were never occupied by Covid patients. Germany also has the most intensive care beds in Europe and is at the top worldwide. “You can say pretty much anything about the German health system – except that we don’t have enough inpatient and intensive care capacities.”

In addition, there are 11 000 beds in Germany as an emergency reserve. They were never set up and never put into operation. And although the federal government had given half a billion euros to finance the construction of additional intensive capacities, these beds apparently did not even exist. “Obviously, they were never created or applied for,” the doctor said.

Even the story that there were too few nurses could not be true. According to data from the Federal Employment Agency, there has never been a decline in the number of caregivers, but a substantial increase of 43 000 people in 2020 alone. The months of November and December have not yet been included.

There has even been a tendency in hospitals to transfer patients to intensive care units without an emergency during the pandemic. “Based on the seven-day reporting rate, nowhere else in the world have so many Covid patients been treated in intensive care units as we have.” At the end of April 2021, for example, 61 percent of Covid patients were treated in intensive care units in hospitals. In comparison, according to Schrappe, it was only 25 percent in Switzerland and eleven percent in Italy.

The scientist also expressed doubts about the targeted, adequate use of resources. The research by the scientists also revealed that on individual days there were officially more patients in intensive care than were hospitalized. “Strange, incomprehensible things are happening”, Schrappe summarized the situation.

The scientists received encouragement for their report, for example, from the professor of public finance at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Stefan Homburg. “The wave is rolling: This current article also deals with the problem of faked numbers and speaks of subsidy fraud. Corona is gradually turning out to be the only self-service shop.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/05/18/germany-fraud-allegations-against-intensive-care-units/

An arrest warrant has been issued for a 30-year-old Afghan man in Schwerin for attempted manslaughter. The man, who has no fixed address, allegedly attacked a 12-year-old girl at Schwerin-Mitte station on Friday afternoon, the public prosecutor’s office informed. He is suspected of having pulled the child over a safety line on the platform as a goods train passed the station. The 12-year-old girl and another girl were able to resist the attack and free themselves with minor injuries. Nothing is yet known about the background of the incident.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Schwerin-Haftbefehl-wegen-versuchten-Totschlags,kurzmeldungmv1782.html

It has long been known – even to the German government: anti-Semitism is widespread among the Muslim population in Europe. According to a 2013 study by the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), almost half of European Muslims believe that Jews cannot be trusted. By comparison, only less than ten percent of Christians believe this.

Here, according to the study, there are hardly any differences in views between the first and second generation of Muslims in Germany, France or Great Britain. Religious fundamentalism, anti-Semitism and bigotry are widespread and deeply rooted.

No wonder 52 percent of Germans find Islam threatening, according to a 2019 study by the Bertelsmann Foundation. Muslim Germans were also surveyed.

The Jewish population experiences the hostility of Muslims first-hand. In a 2017 study by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence in Bielefeld, 81 per cent of the Jews surveyed in Germany said they had already been attacked by Muslims, and 61 per cent had suffered verbal insults or harassment.

For experts, the causes are rooted in Islam: In the Islamic world, 53 per cent of the countries are ruled by authoritarian regimes, and only four per cent are democratic, writes WZB researcher Ruud Koopmans. In 2018, the Berlin historian and sociologist Günther Jikeli presented one of the few systematic studies on anti-Semitism among Muslims in Europe. He conducted interviews with young Muslim men of different ethnic backgrounds in London, Berlin and Paris.

In these interviews, he identified different forms of anti-Semitism: “classical anti-Semitism”, such as stereotypes that Jews are rich, forms of Israel-related anti-Semitism and an anti-Semitism that completely dispenses with justifications. For Jikeli, anti-Semitism “lies in the interpretation of Muslim identity”: hostility against Jews is thus part of Islam, of being Muslim. Anti-Semitism is not the exception but the rule among Muslims, hatred of Jews often is the norm, Jikeli concludes.

For the Hamburg political scientist Matthias Küntzel, the humiliation of Jews, who are seen as “weak and despicable”, is characteristic of Islam: “When Arab youths in Berlin chanted the slogan: ‘Jew, Jew, cowardly pig, come out and fight alone’ in the summer of 2014, this devaluation became conspicuous. When in April 2018 an Arab in Berlin reached for his belt to whip a kippa-wearer with it, he too used an archaic language that expresses more than just violence: similar to spitting or slapping, the belt slap serves to degrade the other – the humiliation was more important here than the physical injury.”

Scholars see the influence of Arab, Iranian and Turkish media as one reason for the widespread anti-Semitism in Muslim milieus in Europe. Here, anti-Semitism is often expressed quite openly, according to the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ) from Jena: “In addition, there is the influence of Islamist organisations, which are paid from abroad, on mosque associations and imams in Germany.

Physical attacks on Jews and the desecration and destruction of synagogues are mainly committed by young Muslim perpetrators, mostly of Arab descent, reports the IDZ. Muslim perpetrators are also responsible for numerous anti-Semitic murders in Europe in recent years: for example, for the attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012, in which a teacher and three children were shot dead, for the attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014, in which four people were killed, for the attack on a Jewish supermarket near Paris in 2015 with four deaths, for the attack on a synagogue in Copenhagen in 2015 with two deaths.

Interesting: The Central Council of Muslims in Germany also seats on the board of trustees of the IDZ.

So far, even unsolved anti-Semitic crimes are automatically attributed to right-wing extremists in police statistics: “But hostility towards Jews is also a problem among immigrants from Muslim countries. It’s a sensitive issue that many people don’t want to get their fingers burnt on,” Frankfurt professor Susanne Schröter, head of the Global Islam Research Centre, told FOCUS Online. According to Schröter, the statistics paint a false picture of the reality.

https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/integration-gescheitert-ueberwiegend-judenfeindlich-deutschland-sitzt-auf-einem-pulverfass-der-islam-legt-die-lunte_id_13300817.html

A week ago, the campaign for more acceptance was launched in Berlin: “Love is halal – love is allowed”. Now there is the first case of vandalism.
On the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia of all days, the case becomes known: Vandalism at the Franklinstrasse bus stop in the Charlottenburg district.

According to the mosque, Wall Ltd. wants to carry out repairs quickly, among other things because of broken glass, and put the poster back up on Monday. Criminal charges have been filed against unknown persons.

Last Tuesday, the Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque and its contact point Islam & Diversity (AID) launched an acceptance campaign for queer Muslims. Posters with a total of five different motifs are now being displayed in Berlin. Their message: “Love is halal – love is allowed.

The campaign is directed against the prevailing view, especially within Muslim communities, that sexual diversity is forbidden in Islam. The Islam & Diversity (AID) contact point, funded by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, counters this: Muslim and queer – these can very well be reconciled. Among other things, the AID offers pastoral counselling, a shelter and various platforms for regular exchange.

“We cannot imagine a God who opposes the love of two people,” explains Seyran Ateş, the founder of the Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque and its managing partner. And yet queer Muslims and Muslim women are repeatedly expelled or even killed by their families.

https://mannschaft.com/vandalismus-gegen-akzeptanzkampagne-fuer-queere-musliminnen/

In view of the renewed escalation of violence in the Middle East, several demonstrations took place across Germany last Saturday. The Palestinian Association Flensburg also protested in the presence of a large police contingent. According to media reports, around 150 people took part in the pro-Palestinian rally on Flensburg’s Willy-Brandt-Platz square.

Not far from the rally, about 25 people gathered at the same time for a counterdemonstration to make a statement against anti-Semitism and to show solidarity with Israel. The rally was announced by the blogger and activist Amed Sherwan, an ex-Muslim who had to flee northern Iraq in 2014 because of his critical stance towards religion.

In a speech, Sherwan explained his reasons for organising the event: “I am standing here because I know anti-Semitism. For a long time, it was a natural part of my world view. However, through his confrontation with the Holocaust and encounters with Israel-solidarity groups, he gained a new perspective on the Middle East conflict in Germany: “I don’t know the solution, but I know that Islamism is part of the problem. Because the images of the enemy that I grew up with are deliberately spread all over the world by Muslim Brotherhood groups. And other Islamist groups also portray Israel as the root of all evil.” Enemy images, Sherwan explained, are never a solution to problems – no matter by whom they are fomented.

As the demonstration continued, an incident occurred in which Amed Sherwan was physically assaulted: A 23-year-old man, who was allegedly taking part in the pro-Palestinian rally, tried to snatch an Israeli flag from Sherwan. During the assault, both fell to the ground, whereupon police officers intervened. Shortly afterwards, Sherwan, who was also initially detained by the officers, was allegedly called a “fucking Jew” by the perpetrator.

According to the police, the assailant was taken into custody and released after his personal details had been established. Sherwan suffered minor injuries as a result of the fall and filed a complaint against the perpetrator.

On the same day, Sherwan published a video statement on his Facebook page in which he describes the incident in detail. He also criticised the municipality of Flensburg for continuing to treat the Palestinian Association as if it were a “normal cultural association”. The public statements of the association, on the other hand, clearly show that its members hold Islamist and anti-Semitic positions.

https://hpd.de/artikel/angriff-ex-muslim-demonstration-gegen-antisemitismus-19298